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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 137, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 2010, 12:53 PM CDT for Benton County, Morgan County, Missouri. It was in force for 52 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 11, 2010, 12:53 PM CDT (17:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 11, 2010, 1:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Benton County, MO, Morgan County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 10:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jul 11, 12:17 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 3 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 174 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1329 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 876 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 4.2
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Springfield, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 11, 12:38 PM CDT, 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 11, 12:38 PM CDT, 15 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 11, 11:54 AM CDT, 59 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1154 AM CDT SUN JUL 11 2010 KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-121700- BOURBON-CRAWFORD-CHEROKEE-BENTON-MORGAN-MILLER-MARIES-VERNON- ST. CLAIR-HICKORY-CAMDEN-PULASKI-PHELPS-BARTON-CEDAR-POLK-DALLAS- LACLEDE-TEXAS-DENT-JASPER-DADE-GREENE-WEBSTER-WRIGHT-NEWTON- LAWRENCE-CHRISTIAN-DOUGLAS-HOWELL-SHANNON-MCDONALD-BARRY-STONE- TANEY-OZARK-OREGON- 1154 AM CDT SUN JUL 11 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE MISSOURI OZARKS AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED... SIGNIFICANT THREAT FOR DAMAGING WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH. ELEVATED THREAT FOR HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS. ELEVATED LIGHTNING THREAT. LIMITED THREAT FOR TORNADOES. LIMITED FLOODING THREAT. AREAS AFFECTED AND TIMING... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE ENTIRE OUTLOOK AREA. THE BEST POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL OCCUR THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THE EVENING DISCUSSION... STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS NORTH AND WEST OF THE AREA WILL TRACK EAST SOUTHEAST INTO THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON. THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS. AN ISOLATED TORNADO THREAT ALSO EXISTS. WHILE THE ENTIRE AREA HAS THE POTENTIAL OF SEVERE STORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...THE INITIAL SEVERE WEATHER RISK WILL AFFECT AREAS OF WEST CENTRAL INTO CENTRAL MISSOURI EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. IN ADDITION TO THE POTENTIAL OF SEVERE STORMS...HEAVY RAIN WILL LIKELY ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS...AND SHOULD MULTIPLE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE OVER THE SAME AREA...A LOCALIZED FLOODING THREAT WILL BE POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. THERE IS AN ELEVATED TO SIGNIFICANT RISK OF THUNDERSTORMS ONCE AGAIN ON MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...AS WELL AS A THREAT FOR FLOODING. HEAT INDICES ARE EXPECTED TO BE IN EXCESS OF 100 DEGREES ON WEDNESDAY AND BETWEEN 95 AND 100 ON THURSDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED OVER WEST CENTRAL AND CENTRAL MISSOURI THIS AFTERNOON WITH THE POTENTIAL OF SPOTTERS BEING NEEDED FURTHER SOUTH BY LATE AFTERNOON INTO THE EARLY EVENING. && THIS PRODUCT IS NOW AVAILABLE IN GRAPHICAL FORMAT...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION...AT HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/SGF(ALL LOWERCASE) LINDENBERG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 1:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Morgan | 54 min |
| Jul 11, 2:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Benton, St. Clair | 50 min |
| Jul 11, 2:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Miller, Morgan | 58 min |
| Jul 11, 2:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Benton, Morgan | 34 min |
| Jul 11, 2:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Benton | 35 min |
| Jul 11, 2:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Miller | 42 min |
| Jul 11, 2:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Benton, Camden, Miller, Morgan | 6 hr |
| Jul 11, 2:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Benton, Camden, Dallas, Hickory, Laclede, Miller and 1 more | 50 min |
| Jul 11, 3:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Camden | 25 min |
| Jul 11, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Maries, Miller | 43 min |
| Jul 11, 3:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Maries, Miller | 39 min |
| Jul 11, 3:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Camden, Laclede, Pulaski | 44 min |
| Jul 11, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dent, Laclede, Maries, Phelps, Pulaski, Texas | 38 min |
| Jul 11, 3:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Phelps, Pulaski | 23 min |
| Jul 11, 3:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Maries, Phelps | 35 min |
| Jul 11, 4:06 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Camden, Maries, Miller, Pulaski | 6 hr |
| Jul 11, 4:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Phelps | 13 min |
| Jul 11, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dallas, Laclede, Texas, Webster, Wright | 60 min |
| Jul 11, 4:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Phelps | 24 min |
| Jul 11, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dent, Phelps, Texas | 47 min |
| Jul 11, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Shannon, Texas, Wright | 59 min |
| Jul 11, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton, Cedar, Vernon | 63 min |
| Jul 11, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | St. Clair | 52 min |
| Jul 11, 5:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dallas, Polk | 44 min |
| Jul 11, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dallas, Greene, Polk | 38 min |
| Jul 11, 5:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Benton, Camden, Cedar, Dallas, Hickory, Laclede and 5 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 11, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Webster | 34 min |
| Jul 11, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton, Cedar, Dade, Vernon | 34 min |
| Jul 11, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Greene | 47 min |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.